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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 25.
Published in final edited form as: Violence Vict. 2010;25(3):319–331. doi: 10.1891/0886-6708.25.3.319

TABLE 2.

Women’s and Men’s Violence Scores Predicting Mental Health Problems and Couple Relationship Distress in the Full Sample and Subsamples of Violent Partners

Mental Health Problems Relationship Distress

Women Men Women Men

β ΔR2 β ΔR2 β ΔR2 β ΔR2
Full sample analyses
 Women’s violence
  Step 1: Prevalence 0.31 .09** 0.23 .05** 0.45 .17** 0.37 .12**
  Step 2: Severity type 0.40 .02* 0.21 .01 0.40 .02* 0.87 .11**
 Men’s violence
  Step 1: Prevalence 0.27 .06** 0.09 .01 0.47 .18** 0.45 .18**
  Step 2: Severity type 0.28 .01 0.41 .02 0.15 .001 0.58 .04**
Subsample analyses
 Women’s Violence
  Step 1: S-W Counts 0.27 .07 0.11 .01 0.10 .11* 0.45 .38**
  Step 2: Chronicity 0.38 .06 −0.24 .02 0.10 .01 0.27 .02
 Men’s violence
  Step 1: S-W Counts 0.28 .07 0.31 .09 0.24 .04 0.47 .20*
  Step 2: Chronicity 0.69 .22* −0.08 .003 0.47 .06 0.17 .01

Note. All models controlled for a composite measure of socioeconomic status. N = 168 in full sample; in subsamples, n = 50 for women’s violence and n = 29 for men’s violence.

**

p < .01.

*

p < .05.

p < .10.